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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows

"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...

Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Jane Davis I Stopped Time

What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...

Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Anna Ihrén The Herring King

Scandals. Secrets. Silence. When the grandson of the great Herring King is found dead in a newly renovated pilot house on the beautiful island of Smögen, Nathalie Colette and Sandra Haraldsson are first on the scene. Ruled as a suicide, the case baffles them as the victim was set to inherit the large fortune from his father who has just passed away. But is it suicide? And if so, what is really going on in the old merchant's house on Smögenbryggan? ´The Herring King´ is the third part of...

Engels | 8 uur 54 minuten (394 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Cecilia Sahlström Vigilante

A Sara Vallén Thriller

Intrigue, illusions, and insidious motives... Still recovering from testifying against her abuser, Chief Inspector Sara Vallén is called out to investigate a mysterious death in an idyllic allotment on the outskirts of Lund. The victim - a beloved social worker - is found brutally murdered inside one of the potting sheds. But when Sara and the police dig deeper into the case, they begin to unravel a web of dark secrets surrounding the victim's seemingly perfect life... Can Sara trust her intuition...

Engels | 8 uur 16 minuten (400 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Donna Ashcroft The Christmas Countdown

It’s that time of year again, snowflakes are fluttering and the countdown to Christmas has begun! Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the two people she loves the most, she flees to her eccentric Aunt Clara’s cosy cottage to hide away over the winter season. But kind, impulsive Aunt Clara has other ideas... She’s not about to see her favourite niece wallowing in sadness during the most wonderful time of the year. So, with the help of her close...

Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Damion Hunter Empire's Edge

Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain… Centurion Faustus Valerianus has already proven his bravery and skill, marching alongside Julius Agricola for six gruelling years to conquer the north of Britain. But that was just the beginning... With Agricola back in Rome, Faustus is given a new mission: to journey to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar and help him reclaim his rightful throne. But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia, fears grow that the...

Engels | 13 uur 35 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Mich Vraa | Jesper Bugge Kold The Nurse from the Big White Ship

From the war-torn streets of Odense to the devastated warzone of South Korea, destiny calls... Nurse Molly Dahl wants to escape the trauma of wartime Denmark by joining the hospital ship, Jutlandia, set for the battlefields of Korea. Yun, an eleven-year-old North Korean girl, flees her village which was destroyed by Napalm, seeking sanctuary from the havoc. Both Molly and Yun abandon their pasts, hopeful for a brighter future in South Korea. However, their journey becomes more treacherous than...

Engels | 11 uur 4 minuten (497 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lilac Mills Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell

George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love. George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and keeping social interactions to a minimum, but his carefully balanced system is now under threat... Nessa Millbrook can’t wait to get settled into her new home in quaint, rural Applewell. Everyone in the village is so friendly – except her neighbour, George, who wants nothing to do with her....

Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Pauline Rowson The Chale Bay Murders

Meet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses. Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller. An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor. When he observes mysterious lights out at sea, he reports them to the police. The local police think...

Engels | 8 uur 20 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Pauline Rowson The Isle of Wight Murders

A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf course. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he’s on holiday trouble follows him... On an abandoned golf course, Horton finds a distraught, young woman with a gun in her hand, crouching over one of the derelict bunkers. Then the smell hits him. A dead man lies there. Dressed in walking gear, his body decomposing. The woman with the gun says she’s his sister....

Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...

Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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H. C. Andersen The Little Mermaid

How much are you willing to sacrifice in the name of love? In the beloved fairy tale ´The Little Mermaid´, Hans Christian Andersen beautifully depicts a mermaid princess' tranquil but tragic life under the sea. Curious about humans, the princess daringly ventures above the surface and finds herself drawn to a human prince. However, being unable to do anything about her growing love for the prince, she eventually seeks help from a mystical sea witch, who changes her life forever - but at what cost?...

Engels | 51 minuten (38 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sietse de Vries Covidwiksel

Covid kin in oar minske fan ien meitsje. It oerkomt Jan de Vries (06-06-1952, Dinnestrjitte 53b, Ljouwert) letterlik as er op deselde dei yn Medysk Sintrum Ljouwert opnommen wurdt as Jan de Vries (06-06-1952, Ingelskestrjitte 28, Ljouwert). Fiif wike letter, as de dokters him better ferklearje en mei in taksy nei hûs stjoere, stapt er in oar libben yn. It is in nuveraardich ferhaal oer wat der barre kin as yn in sikehûs in foutsje makke wurdt en je konfrontearre wurde mei in ferline fan in oar....

Westerlauwers Fries | 3 uur 44 minuten (322 MB) | Audiofrysk, Easterwierrum | 2023

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Claudia Cravens Lucky Red

Nadat de roodharige Bridget haar vader heeft verloren op de prairie, belandt ze in een bordeel in Dodge waar haar vreedzame bestaan wreed wordt doorbroken door een gewelddadige bende.

Fictie

Engels | 292 pagina's | Atlantic fiction, London | 2024

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Jeannette Walls Hang the moon

Ondanks de tegenwerking van haar familie probeert de jonge Salllie Kincaid haar vaders zaken op een humane manier voort te zetten.

Fictie

Engels | 349 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2024

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Leigh Bardugo Hell bent

Alex Stern, die geesten kan zien, wordt ingehuurd om de geheime genootschappen van de universiteit van Yale in de gaten te houden. Wanneer haar mentor in de Hel wordt opgenomen, besluit zij hem terug te halen.

Fictie

Engels | 481 pagina's | Gollancz, London | 2023

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Willem Verf De wûndere leafde fan Emine en Einte

twadde tendinsroman

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 344 pagina's | Afûk, Ljouwert | 2023

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Meindert Bylsma Wês wiis mei nuvere houtsjes

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 187 pagina's | Elikser Uitgeverij, Ljouwert | 2023

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Carlo Cassola Het kappen van het bos

Een vader van twee dochters en verse weduwnaar trekt zich vijf maanden terug in de Toscaanse Apennijnen, waar hij houthakt met een groep karaktervolle figuren en zoekt naar de zin van het bestaan.

Fictie

Nederlands | 119 pagina's | Uitgeverij Oevers, Zaandam | 2023

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Co Conelis Mijmersteen

een mysterieuze revolutie op een Zweeds eiland; roman

Een vrouwelijke kunstenaar verhuist naar een Zweeds eiland om haar leven een nieuwe wending te geven. Ze doet haar best om haar plek te vinden binnen de gemeenschap, maar mysterieuze gebeurtenissen op het eiland brengen haar aan het wankelen.

Fictie

Nederlands | 200 pagina's | Uitgeverij Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2023

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